Cutting-machine and cutting-table and pattern therefor.



No. 698,064. v Patented Apr. 22, I902. G. SCOTT & E. D. WEYBURN. GUT'TING'MACHINE A Nncumm; TABLE AND PATTERN THEREFOR.

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No. 698,064. Patented Apr. 22, I902;

G. SCOTT & E. D. WEYBURN.

CUTTING MACHINE AND CUTTING TABLE AND PATTERN THEREFOR.

I .(Application filed Mar. 13. 1901.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

NiTED STATES PATENT OrFIcE.

GEORGE SCOTT, OF. AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK, AND ELBERT DELOS WEYBURN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CUTTING-MACHINE AND CUTTING-TABLE AND PATTERN THEREFOR,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,064, dated-April 22, 1902. 7 Application filed March 13,'1901 Serial No. 51,033. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that we,'GEORGE SCOTT, a resident of the city of Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery and State of New York, and ELBERT DELos'WEYBUeN, a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, citizens of the United States, have invented an Improvement in Cutting- Machines and Cutting-Tables and Patterns,of which the following is a specification.

. Our invention relates to an improvement in cutting-tables and patterns, and particularly to devices for use in connection with the cutting of articles'such as clothing, corsets, and knit underwear; and the object of the invention is to provide a suitable table for holding the fabric that isto be cut and also to furnish a means or pattern withthe design or shape of the article that is to be cut from the fabric. I

The invention therefore consists of a table that is made with grooves or channels which are formed to the shape of the garment or'a pattern put together, so as to form a table top or support for the fabric to lie upon.

The invention consists, primarily, of a design or pattern made either in the top ofatable or made separate, so it may be used and detached, if desirable.

The object is to improve the methods in common use and to facilitate the work andsave in labor and expense. The'ordinary method is to lay the fabric upon the table, gen:

erally laying'out many layers one upon the top of the other and forming dozens in thickness,

the top layer being known as the marker,

' in the table or patterns We cut the shapes of the grooves andproduce the forms or shapes of the patterns inthe fabric that lie on the patterns. Where it is possible,-we make dupli cate patterns that can be laid sidegby side, so that one cutting will produce duplicate S 5 able to obtain greaterproductions, and at the same time We are able to get uniformity and more perfect work. i

In connection with the cloth-cutting mafl chines which are usually hung over the cutor made with electrical devices which can be made to Work from electrical currents on the cutting-tables we makea'supplemental base T F 7 or foot or we attach to the regular base or. foot of the cutting devices trundles or lugs that'project beneath the base or foot of the cutting-machine. into the grooves or channels thatare'in the table-top or between the patterns that lie be neath the fabrics, and the machine is pushed into the fabric with the trundles or lugs in the grooves or channels, and as the machine is made to travel through the fabricthe trundles or lugs guide the machine and follow the forms of the grooves and patterns and pro duce the desired-shapes.

These trundles or lugs fit Further, our invention consists of means 7 of producingregular garments without the usual marking or drafting .of the patterns upon the fabric and also of doing the cutting by having the design or pattern beneath the fabric when it is out; finally, in the various matters hereinafter described and referred to in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of our cutting machine and table, fabric being supported on the latter, partly broken away to show the operation of the cutter. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the base orfoot of a cuttingmachine. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the base or foot of a cutting-machine. Fig. 4 is a top View of a pattern design with fabric out on its surface. Fig. 5 is a pattern design made to cut the usual size of drawers and sleeves 65 1 ting-tables and driven by power of some kind on the one pattern or table. Fig. 6 is a top view of a graduated pattern used to cut shirts of the sloping-shoulder character.

In the drawings, A represents the clothcutting mechanism, suspended above the table.

B represents layers of fabric lying on the table.

0 is the channeled or grooved table.

D is a cutter, its blade passing through the layer of fabric B, broken away to show the cutter D and the blade I) and base or foot E passing through the fabric B. The grooves a a shown in the table 0 are made in any shape.

The trundles or lugs 0 c are on the under side of the base or foot E and are in the groove or channel a a when the cutter D passes through the fabric B.

F exhibits layer of fabric lying on the top of the pattern 0 0. Said layers show the fabric F cut, the cutter D having passed through the pattern 0 0 in the grooves a a.

The fabric F lies on the pattern 0 0 at an angle from right to left, the right end lying close to the right edge of the pattern 0 0 and also the left end lying close to the left or back 4 side of the pattern 0 0.

The right and left ends of the fabric F rest against an index-plate (1 cl, which establishes the length and width of the garment by laying the fabric F against the index-plates (Z d at f f.

G representsa drawer-leg, and H represents a sleeve. They being designed so that their seamed edges are of the same angle, they can be laid on the table or pattern, so as to out without waste pieces between the edges. The three channels or grooves in the pattern 10- cate the place for the edges and sizes. 13y putting the fabric on the top of the pattern un til its outer edges extend toward the outer edges of the pattern it willcut wider orlarger garments,and vice versa for smallergarments.

I I represent a form for cutting shirt-bodies. This pattern is made so that the channels or grooves form the armholes for the sleeves and also cut the slanting o1- sloping shoulders. The extending slides J J have graduating numbers on them. Pushing the two sections I I in makes a smaller shirt and pushin g them apart forms a larger shirt. The size of the shirt is established by the numbers on the slides J J.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cutting device having a base suitably supporting a cutter, and separate guiding lugs or trundles projecting downwardly from said base, and constructed to slide freely in curved grooves or channels, substantially as described.

2. A cutting-table or pattern having grooves or channels, in combination with a cutting device having separate guiding lugs or trundles constructed to slide freely in said curved grooves or channels, whereby the cutter can beguided in said grooves and follow a curved pattern, substantially as described.

3. A cutting-table or pattern having grooves or channels therein and indexes for locating the position of the fabric over said grooves, in combination with a cutter having separate guiding lugs or trundles constructed to slide freely in said curved grooves or channels, substantially as described.

4. Acutting-table orpattern havingguiding grooves or channels representing diiferent sized garments, in combination with a cutter having separate guiding lugs or trundles constructed to slide freely in said curved grooves or channels, substantially as described.

5. A cutting-table or pattern havinggrooves or channels for guiding a cutter, and sliding indexes establishing the edge of the garments, substantially as described.

6. Acutting-tableorpatternhavinggrooves or channels therein for guiding a cutter, and indexes for locating the position of the fabric adapted to rest above said grooves or channels, in combination with a cutter arranged to coact with said grooves or channels, substantially as described.

GEORGE SCOTT. ELBERT DELOS IVEYBURN. Witnesses:

JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, AARON SHowEnMAN. 

